During a recent segment on CNN, host Chris Cuomo said:
Now too many see the protest as the problem. No the problems is what forced your fellow citizens to take to the streets. Persistent and poisonous inequities and injustice and please, show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful.
WATCH:
CNN's Chris Cuomo: "Please, show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful."
As riots and looting have broken out in cities across the country, this is the message the brother of New York governor Andrew Cuomo shares at the top of his show. pic.twitter.com/ZZ47zpyVlx
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) June 3, 2020
One Twitter user replied “found it!” and tweeted a photo of the first amendment.
Another Twitter user replied:
It’s right here in the first amendment:
“the right of the people peaceably to assemble”
Not
‘the right of the people to burn their communities down and throw bricks’
It's right here in the first amendment:
"the right of the people peaceably to assemble"
Not
'the right of the people to burn their communities down and throw bricks'
— GIGABEAR (@Gigabear_USA) June 3, 2020